One who embarks on a project such as A Personal
Dictionary can only be one who makes the results of those explorations
accessible. Reading this book one will find that my borrowings and quotations
(always noted) are integral not only to the text but to my thinking and…
therefore, to my living. Open access as an ethic is crucial to this and to
other similar endeavours. Practically speaking open access means (as
quoted from The Public Library of Science):
The author and copyright holder grants to all users a free,
irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to
copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to
make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any
responsible purpose,
subject to proper attribution of authorship,
as well as the right
to make small numbers of printed copies for
their personal use.
I
encourage everyone to resist the imperial urges inherent in creative
explorations. The thought-paths you reveal should not lead to slave camps, and
the thought-maps that result from your efforts should not become blueprints for
prisons.
If
you wish to use any material found here in A Personal Dictionary please
do not hesitate to contact me. I would like to be informed of your intentions for
no other reason than I am interested in the entanglements that such things as
this can engender.